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‘It should be us’: ABC pushes government to reconsider $17 million grant to commercial TV

ABC boss David Anderson believes the ABC is better placed to service the Pacific region over Australian commercial networks.

Succsesive LNP governments have continuously cut the ABC’s funding. They killed Radio Australia after 75 years in the Pacific under Abbott. They gave $30 mill to Murdoch under Turnbull and have cut $300 mill off the ABC since 2013. Now having given China the freedom to broadcast throughout the region they wan’t to appear tho reverse the Abbott trend by not calling it a gross error but by giving the funding to commercial free to air TV $17 mill to represent their shareholders and not Australia. This gov is on a 3 year mission to smother the ABC (ODT)

The ABC has complained to the Morrison government about a plan to give $17 million to commercial television networks to bring Australian shows to the Pacific Islands, with the public broadcaster arguing it should receive the funding instead.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the three year, multi-million dollar funding initiative with FreeTV Australia in January and negotiations between the government and the commercial television group are underway.

via ‘It should be us’: ABC pushes government to reconsider $17 million grant to commercial TV

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Review finds ABC needs long-term funding – which might not be what the government wanted | Media | The Guardian

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But the communications bureaucrat Richard Bean and the former chief executive of News Corp and Foxtel Peter Tonagh concluded the ABC needed expensive new infrastructure to keep up with rapid changes in technology, and long-term funding certainty was preferable to the current triennial funding.

The ABC has lost $393m over five years under the Coalition government.

Handed to the government in December, the secret $1m report has languished in Mitch Fifield’s office for months and may never be released if Labor wins the election.

via Review finds ABC needs long-term funding – which might not be what the government wanted | Media | The Guardian

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Netflix won’t tell Australian stories. We need the ABC for that, says Mark Scott | Media | The Guardian

Mark Scott says it would be a shame if Australian television goes the way of Australian film, representing a tiny percentage of the box office

via Netflix won’t tell Australian stories. We need the ABC for that, says Mark Scott | Media | The Guardian

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Labor distances itself from the ABC chair process, but has no qualms with the result

This Government pays for expertise then prefers parachuting it’s choices in over what they paid for to look independant (ODT)

Peter Ryan, senior business correspondent at the ABC, warned on Monday that Ms Buttrose’s appointment would be controversial given she wasn’t on the supplied shortlist.

“While Ita Buttrose would be a popular choice, her appointment would still be controversial given that her name was not included after a global search by the headhunters Korn Ferry,” he said.

Media Watch host Paul Barry was surprised the government was casting the shortlist aside.

“Seriously? Is the government really going to ignore the selection panel’s advice again and appoint Ita Buttrose to ABC chair, when she’s not even on the short list?” Mr Barry wrote on Twitter.

Most recently, Ms Buttrose has co-hosted morning TV on Nine’s Today Extra, and Network Ten’s Studio Ten. She has been a News Corp and Australian Consolidated Press director, and was president of the Chief Executive Women organisation.

via Labor distances itself from the ABC chair process, but has no qualms with the result

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Cabinet poised to appoint Ita Buttrose as next ABC chair

via Cabinet poised to appoint Ita Buttrose as next ABC chair

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ABC takes on commercial big guns with ‘steroid’-enhanced panel show

This year, panel show The Drum will air in prime time on ABC's main channel. Ellen Fanning, left, and Julia Baird share hosting duties.

“When people come up to me on the street, they don’t clutch my arm and say, ‘Gee, I love you Ellen Fanning, you’re the greatest.’ What they actually say is, ‘I love The Drum, I love the engaged conversation and I love that people aren’t throwing rhetorical bombs at each other.’ And that won’t change.”

via ABC takes on commercial big guns with ‘steroid’-enhanced panel show

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ABC and SBS are not distorting media market, government inquiry finds

The government’s inquiry into whether the ABC and SBS are competing fairly with the private sector’s media operators has given a tick to the public broadcasters.

The report concluded: “Given their market shares, and other factors, this inquiry considers the National Broadcasters are not causing significant competitive distortions beyond the public interest”. But it did see the need for greater transparency from them.

The review arose from a 2017 deal between the government and Pauline Hanson to get One Nation support for media law changes which liberalised ownership rules. It has been chaired by Robert Kerr, formerly from the Productivity Commission. The report was released by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield on Wednesday.

The outcome will be disappointing to News Corp in particular which has been highly critical of the ABC’s expansion in online publishing. The former Fairfax organisation, now taken over by Nine, also complained about the competition eating into the market of commercial media groups.

via ABC and SBS are not distorting media market, government inquiry finds

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EDITORIAL EXCERPT: Undermining the NBN and ABC

This Government is intent on undermining our public institutions. And nowhere is this more evident than with the ABC and NBN.

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4 cents a day – » The Australian Independent Media Network

it is probable that the current dramas wouldn’t have occurred if the recommendations were followed last time by Communications Minister Fifield.

It was interesting to watch the change in focus over the week when Guthrie and Milne walked the plank. On Monday, Guthrie was claimed to be someone who was completely out of touch with the demands of the job, by Thursday the narrative had changed to Milne apparently instructing Guthrie to sack journalists who were ‘critical’ of the government, an instruction Guthrie refused, demonstrating how ‘in touch’ she was!

It really doesn’t matter who said or didn’t say what to whom. Milne and Guthrie are victims of a process of the current government to eliminate criticism of their actions.

As the owners of the ABC, we need to remind all politicians that media independence is our expectation and criticism comes with the turf.

via 4 cents a day – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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ABC crisis at the top: Will the Board members please tell?

The Government is Now Ducking for Cover. However Murdoch and the IPA won’t be. (ODT)

THE FIVE women and two men of the present, residual ABC Board have been under a cloud because of the system of direct nomination of directors by the government.

The former Chairman Justin Milne resigned over his ideas of what the government wanted, so his Board colleagues are being asked if they had any involvement in his actions.

via ABC crisis at the top: Will the Board members please tell?

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Words can fly and words can bite – » The Australian Independent Media Network

A society is not served at all well if its journalists are so afraid, to tell the truth, that they become silenced hostages of the powerful – effectively nothing more than palace eunuchs.

As I write, I am watching the President of the USA mocking in the most loathsome way, a woman who dared speak out about a sexual assault she suffered by someone who is after one of the most important jobs in America –it is a job for the rest of his life- in the most important field in the running of the American society, that of the country’s Supreme Court.

President Trump was mocking Dr Christine Blasey Ford who alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the Trump’s nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

And this is while the Senate is trying to assess Kavanaugh’s suitability to a seat in the Supreme Court. His words, Trump’s words, are a belligerent, bellowing cascade of bitterness, of hatred and of poison that has indeed, escaped the barrier of his teeth. They are nothing short of a vulgar, unabashed interference in the process of seeking the truth. (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/02/trump-mocks-christine-blasey-ford-at-mississippi-rally)

Interference by powerful, vested interests. An aggressive attack on a person with little power other than that invested in the truth, an attack aimed at shutting down any other person who holds the truth but who is not powerful enough to utter it.

The ABC, like the ancient Greek stage, is the platform where the truth comes to see the light and breathe the clear air. This light and this air must not be subverted in any way. It must not be turned into a “truth maybe” or a “truth but.”

Words can fly and words can bite – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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ABC board examine Michelle Guthrie claims by hiring external investigator

ABC: for the same price as a fighter jet we get good value

The ABC board has been under pressure to explain its actions before and during last week’s turmoil, including questions around why it removed Ms Guthrie and appeared to take no action in response to her allegations.

via ABC board examine Michelle Guthrie claims by hiring external investigator

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The ABC drama and Australia’s system of governance

The existing political culture, comprising the customary and often glorified Westminster system, meaning government and opposition dominating the parliament, plus the associated SMD electoral processes, present major disadvantages. This combination results in frequent two-party combat. It certainly does not suit a diverse, multicultural society. We need political systems where true majorities are in fact governing, formed by compromises after democratic elections.

This is equally necessary for boards of public organisations that serve the public good and do not exist to make money for their shareholders and outrageous, undeserved salary packages for their executives — such as those of major banks and insurance companies now being investigated. Diversity covers ideas, interests, ethnic groups, gender, age and a fair distribution of income worthy of an egalitarian society.

via The ABC drama and Australia’s system of governance

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Lose our democracy? It’s as easy as ABC. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Why the ABC is essential

The singling out of ABC journalists tends to confirm that it is not just a matter of correcting errors of fact as the government maintains but, rather, a desire to eliminate dissent, as Waleed Aly writes for Fairfax. Aly contends that the week is one in which the ABC has been recast as an organisation more concerned with keeping the government happy than with the non-negotiability of journalistic independence.

For Ali, “it’s about a civic culture that is slowly falling apart: a political class with fewer civic boundaries, less concerned with the independence of institutions, and a muscular intolerance of dissent.

It’s also a ruling class is happy to cling to power by mounting increasingly legalistic, hair-splitting defences.

But common to all democracies is a free press. Some of these even have a proudly independent national broadcaster free from political interference. And they’ve cut away the dead albatross; the decay corpse of neoliberalism from around their necks leaving them to invest in schools and hospitals not the service delivery of privatised and outsourced health care and educational options. And banks set up not to profit out of need and vulnerability but to supply the funds to develop a civil society.

via Lose our democracy? It’s as easy as ABC. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Coalition and the ABC have more in common than they might think – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The ABC’s diligence brought about the capitulation on the Banking Royal Commission that the Government didn’t want (ODT)

The virulence of anti-ABC feeling in some parts of the Coalition sometimes defies logic. Since joining the ABC in May, I’ve been criticised by ministers over pieces that have actually appeared in the Financial Review, not on an ABC platform, because they displayed my “ABC ethic”.

And all this has played out against the backdrop of an unrelenting assault on the ABC by News Corp papers which assign compliant journalists — or those not in a position to say no — to pursue controversies about the broadcaster which are often so ludicrous as to be laughable.

(The relentless pursuit of the question of who was hiding behind the aspidistra in a re-enactment of a political story is just one recent example).

“it was the diligence of ABC reporting that exposed the various corporate outrages that finally forced the government to bring the royal commission into existence. And there could be no better reminder of the value of the public broadcaster than that.”

via Coalition and the ABC have more in common than they might think – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Explosive dossier reveals bitter war between Michelle Guthrie and ABC board

In the document – which Ms Guthrie prepared and distributed to the seven-member board in a last-ditch bid to keep her job – the former ABC boss repeatedly told directors the ABC could not be seen to bow to political pressure from the Coalition government.

““On numerous occasions, in conversations with Mr Milne, I have defended the independence of the ABC from government and the fact that we can’t fire journalists including [political editor] Andrew Probyn and Emma Alberici because the government of the day complains about their reporting,” Ms Guthrie told the board.”

 

via Explosive dossier reveals bitter war between Michelle Guthrie and ABC board

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ABC board members appointed by Fifield despite being rejected by merit-based panel | Media | The Guardian

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Almost all the directors of the ABC’s eight-member board were appointed directly by the minister for communications, Mitch Fifield, and some were appointed after being rejected by the merit-based nominations panel, documents obtained by the Guardian show.

via ABC board members appointed by Fifield despite being rejected by merit-based panel | Media | The Guardian

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ABC scandal: If Labor really cares about the ABC it will restore its funding

So now is the time for all Australians to stand up for the ABC, and SBS, to deliver the political support needed for their survival and re-generation.Now is the time for the Liberal and National parties to see at last that News Corp’s ranting vilification of public broadcasters is commercially and viciously self-serving.Were these political parties true nation builders they would wisely roll with any punches from impertinent ABC journalists and, while correcting their errors, would accept that accountability is a free media and occupational hazard.And now is the time for Shorten to put a money commitment where his mouth is.

Source: ABC scandal: If Labor really cares about the ABC it will restore its funding

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ABC board members appointed by Fifield despite being rejected by merit-based panel | Media | The Guardian

ABC sign in Ultimo

Almost all the directors of the ABC’s eight-member board were appointed directly by the minister for communications, Mitch Fifield, and some were appointed after being rejected by the merit-based nominations panel, documents obtained by the Guardian show.

ABC board members appointed by Fifield despite being rejected by merit-based panel | Media | The Guardian

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ABC chairman Justin Milne’s tangled corporate web

Former managing director Michelle Guthrie, chairman Justin Milne and former PM Malcolm Turnbull in August.

Thomas Clarke, a professor of management at the UTS Business School, who at the time of the controversy over the articles publicly criticised the government’s then plans for a corporate tax cut, said Mr Milne should have recused himself from any decisions over the article.

“It would be very unusual for a chair to take an initiative like this himself or even to become involved in it in any way,” he said.
Former managing director Michelle Guthrie, chairman Justin Milne and former PM Malcolm Turnbull in August.

Former managing director Michelle Guthrie, chairman Justin Milne and former PM Malcolm Turnbull in August.
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“It is not the board’s role to manage the company, that is the CEO’s job, and that is fairly firmly adhered to [by most companies] for good reasons.”

George Rennie, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Melbourne also questioned Mr Milne’s intervention.

via ABC chairman Justin Milne’s tangled corporate web

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ABC Integrity or Political Interference – » The Australian Independent Media Network

When asked the question, Malcolm Turnbull opposed a federal corruption watchdog. Out of the same mouth came opposition to the banking royal commission. The results speak for themselves and you would have to be a moron not to see what’s going on with the Liberal Party Corporate Coalition.

When you look at the Liberal party cutting $84 million dollars from the ABC’s budget, because they didn’t like balanced editorials, you start to become a bit suspicious about the ABC board of directors sacking managing director Michelle Guthrie. In particular, in the lead up to federal elections.

On the other side of the coin, Guthrie came under intense scrutiny, during her time as managing director, for not defending the ABC against attacks from the Coalition government and from News Corp. While the ABC has been used as a punching bag by the government, staff wanted someone who could stand up and defend the ABC’s reputation as Australia’s most trusted media source.

So, we have two conflicting arguments going on here, to keep us in a state of confusion. That’s generally a tactic used by the Liberal Party and their corporate and media cohorts.

via ABC Integrity or Political Interference – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Michelle Guthrie’s stint at ABC helm had a key weakness: she failed to back the journalists

In the face of sustained pressure from the government and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, she has seemed incapable of mounting a sustained and effective response.

And in this environment of hostility, ABC journalists have felt under siege.

As editor-in-chief – which comes with the managing director’s job – Guthrie was unable to give the kind of robust editorial leadership that journalists need if they are to report fearlessly and independently.

It was clear by the middle of this year that whatever qualities Guthrie brought to the job, editorial leadership was not one of them. Thus the ABC was at a crossroads. It had as its managing director and editor-in-chief a person with no journalistic background who had shown scant signs of understanding the impact of the federal government’s relentless bullying on the ABC’s editorial independence.

 

via Michelle Guthrie’s stint at ABC helm had a key weakness: she failed to back the journalists

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Michelle Guthrie threatens to sue ABC over ‘unjustified’ job termination

ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has been axed from the public broadcaster.

ABC chairman Justin Milne said Ms Guthrie had been sacked because the board wanted a different “leadership style”, citing concerns about her poor relationship with the federal government.

via Michelle Guthrie threatens to sue ABC over ‘unjustified’ job termination

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Guthrie gone | The Monthly

The destruction of an Australian Icon is at hand and only the ALP can save it and Australian Democracy and values.(ODT)

In June this year, the Liberal Party’s peak council voted by 2:1 to privatise the ABC, as proposed by the Institute of Public Affairs, whose alumni includes communications minister Mitch Fifield, an arch-plotter who backed Turnbull over Abbott, Dutton over Turnbull and then Morrison over Dutton. Turnbull and Fifield insisted at the time that the ABC would never be sold, but those assurances are surely worthless now. With News Corp on the attack, and the Coalition so bitterly divided, it is hard to see anyone inside the government dying in a ditch over a high-minded defence of the ABC.

The Australian had another extraordinarily well-timed piece this morning [$], in which media diarist Stephen Brook reported a rift between chair and MD, including deep background that Guthrie had been upset at the chair’s push for the quixotic “Project Jetstream” overhaul of the ABC’s digital infrastructure. There was obviously more to that story. Whether or not Guthrie deserved to be sacked so summarily – and she is today reported to be devastated and considering her legal options – the ABC now appears vulnerable, poorly led, and in need of public support more than ever.

via Guthrie gone | The Monthly

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The Far-Right ABC: The elephant in the corner of the room

But the Far-Right is OK. It’s just part of our Liberal Party. It’s normal. Nothing to see here.

Q&A represents the echo chamber of the political mainstream, but not the balance of the Australian people. The Liberal Party is tearing itself apart precisely because its Far-Right hijackers can’t seem to get the people to follow, so they blame the latest leader.

Remember when Q&A admitted an Islamic State suicide bomber into its studio? At least, that’s what the News Corp tabloids portrayed on their front pages after Zaky Mallah asked a question from the audience. Mallah had admitted to making threats against the lives of ASIO officers and served his time, but had been cleared of a terrorism charge. He was working to prevent young Muslim men from being sucked into ISIS.

There was a robust exchange. The Liberal panelist basically dismissed the legal process and said Mallah should simply be deported at the Minister’s discretion. Malah responded that the Liberal’s attitude would provoke young Muslim Australians to join ISIS. He was shut down by Tony Jones and a Murdoch frenzy ensued. The ABC grovelled and disavowed actual robust debate.

But it was Liberal John Howard’s Government that joined the illegal invasion of Iraq against the clear wishes of the Australian people and in the face of clear warnings, amply vindicated, that it would make us a target of terrorists. Who’s putting us more in danger?

Beyond that, Far-Right extremists advocate radical social engineering, steadily dismantle our open society and democracy, and exploit racism, xenophobia and any other social division they can get their tyre iron into.

via The Far-Right ABC: The elephant in the corner of the room

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7:30 Report – Lies and revelations – » The Australian Independent Media Network

WHY AUSTRALIA NEEDS THE ABC (ODT)

The last two evenings have seen the PM and the head of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation trying to justify/sell Turbull’s captain’s call on 7:30 report.

First up was Malcolm looking distinctly uncomfortable – so uncomfortable that he forgot Tony Burke’s name as he lamely, and so excruciatingly predictably, tried to blame Labor.

When asked why there was no grant application or tender process, Malcolm said “Well it was a very thorough process, a whole cabinet process leading up to the budget.”

When asked if this happened before or after he offered the money on April 9, the PM lied by saying “No it all went through beforehand.”

That is just not true.

7:30 Report – Lies and revelations – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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A move to curtail the ABC would only ‘punish Australian audiences’: Michelle Guthrie

ABC radio and television broadcasts focus on genres that are far removed from commercial output. We have no interest in reality TV formats, chequebook interviews and the music genres of commercial FM – programming that draws the biggest and therefore most lucrative audiences for commercial media. Nor are we in competition for rights to any of the marquee sports events. Instead, we complement the market as the trusted, independent source of Australian conversations, culture and stories.

via A move to curtail the ABC would only ‘punish Australian audiences’: Michelle Guthrie

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MUNGO MACCALLUM: The Liberals’ public enemy number one — the ABC

The Liberals and their allies have always favoured the private over the public, whether in hospitals, health, schools — and broadcasting.

“They don’t hate us for what we do, but for who we are.”

MUNGO MACCALLUM: The Liberals’ public enemy number one — the ABC

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Killing The ABC: The IPA’s Agenda To Dismantle Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network

We’ve let them do so much that is wrong since 2013. They’ve managed to make Australians condone torture and abuse being carried out in our name in offshore gulags.

History will not treat us kindly.

They have already reduced the ABC to a shell of its former self.

The lack of funding and resources is evident, yet still our ABC struggles on, for us.

Please, good people.

We can’t let these goombahs get away with this murder.

Save our ABC.

via Killing The ABC: The IPA’s Agenda To Dismantle Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Coalition complains to ABC about Laura Tingle, Barrie Cassidy and Andrew Probyn | Media | The Guardian

You know the ABC is doing it’s job News Wise when governments complain. In this case the LNP are wailing (ODT)

The Coalition has once again complained to the ABC managing director about ABC news, accusing political journalists Laura Tingle, Barrie Cassidy and Andrew Probyn of repeating “false” claims by the Labor party.

The federal communications minister, Mitch Fifield, wrote to Michelle Guthrie to make a formal complaint about the ABC’s reporting of the setting of the date for the so-called super Saturday byelection.

via Coalition complains to ABC about Laura Tingle, Barrie Cassidy and Andrew Probyn | Media | The Guardian

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New IPA book calls on government to privatise the ABC by ‘giving it away’

 

Destrying the PUBLIC TRUST

1985 ABC Budget was $475 Mill = 2018  $ 1 Billion today The ABC is the most efficient media in Australia that 1) Deleivers News, 2) Australian Production and Content 3) Democracy 4) Trust (ODT)

Beware of IPA Corporatism dimming the lights on Australia for Murdoch. (ODT)

A new book authored by the influential Institute of Public Affairs calls on the Turnbull government to privatise the ABC by giving it away for free to the ABC’s employees or Australian citizens.

Against Public Broadcasting, released on Friday night, labels the ABC “an anachronism” whose rationale is now redundant and which has become a $1 billion-a-year drain on the public purse.

via New IPA book calls on government to privatise the ABC by ‘giving it away’

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Government attacks on the ABC reveal conflict over Australia’s future

 

The Anti- Democratic Triumvariate  is the LNP Government, the IPA and private trash media like News Corp. Murdoch wants digital news as click bait to read and inspire like the Herald Sun (ODT)

Media editor Dr Lee Duffield says a new complaint by the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, comes against a background of ABC-baiting that strikes up mutual interest between radical-right politics and conservative media.

The worrying issue was this attitude:

  • the Government would like news to be uncritical and friendly publicity;
  • it will hit out at media that does not oblige; and
  • it may mate-up with other media that join in the criticism, setting out to be its mouthpiece — for something in return.

via Government attacks on the ABC reveal conflict over Australia’s future

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Royal outrage as conservative chorus rounds on ABC | The Weekly Beast | Media | The Guardian

 

Royal wedding merchandise on sale in Windsor. The ABC has come under fire from News Corp and Coalition MPs for sending a TV crew to London to cover the nuptials.

Wedding coverage and executive bonuses spark new round of Aunty bashing. Plus Daily Telegraph gets it monumentally wrong

News Corp columnists, including the Australian’s Gerard Henderson, the Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt and the Courier Mail’s Des Houghton, have all lined up to denounce the ABC in the past few days.

Here is a taste from the Australian’s Chris Kenny: “Since last week’s budget the ABC has taken a bit of a break from demonising Australians as deplorable xenophobes, Islamophobes, homophobes, misogynists and racists to focus on its own funding problems.”

via Royal outrage as conservative chorus rounds on ABC | The Weekly Beast | Media | The Guardian

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Only the support of the people can save the ABC now | Emma Dawson | Media | The Guardian

‘The biggest danger to the ABC is the government’s agenda to reduce its digital services, and it’s here where the ABC – and, in this case, SBS as well – face a truly existential threat’

In the lead up to the next federal election, every Australian who values our ABC must take the fight to their local MP and actively campaign for a restoration of support to one of our most critically important democratic institutions. There is too much at stake, and no time to lose.

via Only the support of the people can save the ABC now | Emma Dawson | Media | The Guardian

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‘Cutting into muscle’: ABC faces dilemma in absorbing latest funding freeze

Efficiency = 1985 ABC budget was $475 mill equates to $1 billion in 2018 inflation only. Our ABC is running on the same budget it was running on 33 years ago

‘Disappointed’ ABC boss warns of political backlash over budget cut
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‘Disappointed’ ABC boss warns of political backlash over budget cut

 ‘Cutting into muscle’: ABC faces dilemma in absorbing latest funding freeze

‘Disappointed’ ABC boss warns of political backlash over budget cut

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No factual errors found in Alberici tax policy articles on ABC, Senate hears | Media | The Guardian

 

The managing director of the ABC, Michelle Guthrie, and the ABC’s editorial policy adviser, Alan Sunderland, at the Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday.

via No factual errors found in Alberici tax policy articles on ABC, Senate hears | Media | The Guardian

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Can ABC be trusted to hold the government to account? | Andrew Fowler | Opinion | The Guardian

 

Gaven Morris, ABC’s news director

When gifted a large cache of secret documents, the normal journalistic process would involve the stories being written, with names and operational details removed. The reports would then either be published outright, or the government approached for comment, running the risk that they may seek an injunction to prevent publication. Whatever the process, not even completing the journalistic work in the first place is a strange way for the ABC to discharge its journalistic responsibility.

Even stranger still is the way the ABC allowed Asio to bring safes into the ABC buildings, supposedly so the documents could be kept secure and then taken away.

Handing over documents to any Australian intelligence agency signals the emergence of an unhealthy relationship between the ABC and the very institutions of government they should be holding to account. Yet it wasn’t always so.

Can ABC be trusted to hold the government to account? | Andrew Fowler | Opinion | The Guardian

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In era of opinion, ABC News doubles down on facts

 

ABC News managing editor Tim Ayliffe with Patricia Karvelas and Karina Carvalho.

It’s a familiar sight in the current news landscape – panels of suited men rambling loudly on some polemical hot topic, all throbbing veins and manufactured conflict.

For ABC News boss Tim Ayliffe, it’s the right time to go back to basics.

via In era of opinion, ABC News doubles down on facts

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Our Top Ten Video Countdown For 2017 – #2 – The Decline Of US Under Trump | Crooks and Liars

Our Top Ten Video Countdown For 2017 - #2 - The Decline Of US Under Trump

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via Our Top Ten Video Countdown For 2017 – #2 – The Decline Of US Under Trump | Crooks and Liars

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ABC- Restructured

ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie will reshape the organisation.

From early 2018, staff will be re-organised into teams focused on particular topics instead of working strictly for radio or television. The restructure does not include any job losses or particular programs getting the boot.

 

Michelle Guthrie unveils major ABC restructure

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The Hanson plot to kill the ABC | The Saturday Paper

Source: The Hanson plot to kill the ABC | The Saturday Paper

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ABC boss Michelle Guthrie attacks commercial rivals, media law reforms

“There is no pressing need to change the ABC Act and its Charter, no matter how much commercial chief executives and their compliant media outlets argue otherwise,” she said in a draft of her speech to the ABC Friends Public Conference dinner in Sydney on Friday.

Source: ABC boss Michelle Guthrie attacks commercial rivals, media law reforms

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‘Competitive neutrality’ inquiry pushes ABC into turbulent times

The Government’s media package threatens to break the ABC — and it may never be able to be put together again, says former Age editor

Source: ‘Competitive neutrality’ inquiry pushes ABC into turbulent times

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Sky’s no limit in Murdoch empire’s war on ABC | The Weekly Beast | Media | The Guardian

Angelos Frangopoulos wants commercial media to be able to pitch for public broadcaster’s $1.4bn pie. Plus, the NT News spreads the love with a strong marriage equality message

Source: Sky’s no limit in Murdoch empire’s war on ABC | The Weekly Beast | Media | The Guardian

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Donald Trump’s tweets a ‘window into his soul’: Chris Uhlmann questioned over viral critique on US TV – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ABC’s political editor explains his searing critique of US president Donald Trump’s performance at the G20.

Source: Donald Trump’s tweets a ‘window into his soul’: Chris Uhlmann questioned over viral critique on US TV – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Uhlmann: Trump ‘uneasy, lonely, awkward’ at G20

Scathing, searing and brutal were just a few of the adjectives flying around social media on Sunday following an eloquent takedown of Donald Trump by ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann.

Source: Uhlmann: Trump ‘uneasy, lonely, awkward’ at G20

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Australian journalist demolishes Trump at G20: ‘biggest threat to the west’ | US news | The Guardian

BRUTAL: Australian Journalist Sums Up Trump's G20 Visit In 2 Minutes

Reporter Chris Uhlmann’s commentary tearing into American president – a man with ‘no desire and no capacity to lead the world’ – reverberates to Washington

Source: Australian journalist demolishes Trump at G20: ‘biggest threat to the west’ | US news | The Guardian

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Donald Trump has entered a war he cannot win — in which truth is the enemy – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

He may not yet realise it, but US President Donald Trump has now hurled himself headlong into a war with Washington’s national security establishment, writes Greg Jennett.

Source: Donald Trump has entered a war he cannot win — in which truth is the enemy – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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ABC boss Michelle Guthrie says all programs up for review – RN – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Expect more changes, possibly to flagship programs like 7.30, Lateline and the 7pm news, ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie warns.

Source: ABC boss Michelle Guthrie says all programs up for review – RN – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)